Grace and peace. The contributors to this website have a deep love for the people in the First Apostolic Lutheran Church, as well as those in the overall Laestadian / Apostolic Lutheran movement. We wish to share with our “kinsmen according to the flesh” those wonderful works of God that have been embraced by Christians throughout the ages. This is not a site about Apostolic Lutheran churches, but is rather for those of you who are in (or have left) these congregations. We hope these articles and resources are received in the spirit in which they are provided.

 

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Always being reformed. The Protestant Reformers had a slogan, “The church reformed, the church always reforming.” Every church, every denomination, every ministry, is always in need of being reformed by the Holy Scriptures. We are ever prone to wander from biblical Christianity, even when we think we are staying faithful to the inerrant Word of God. Prolonged isolation is not a healthy thing, for we don't always notice our drifting nor see our own blind spots.

 

Any movement that is not interacting with churches outside their circle, and not interacting with the Church in history, will inevitably fall into errors and imbalances.

 

Our concern on this site is that the churches of the Apostolic Lutheran movement have, in some vital areas, slid out of biblical Christianity into dangerous impulses and teachings. While there are a number of good and noble things that Apostolic Lutheran churches are preserving, the places of error are significant enough to lead people astray from the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.

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The blessing: who can forgive sins?

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“To the law and to the testimony” (Isaiah 8:20). Another cry that was taken up by Martin Luther and the other Reformers was, “To the sources.” The Lord’s people were going back to the Bible and the early Church writers, and they wanted everyone to have access to the Holy Scriptures. Our hope is that everyone in Apostolic Lutheran churches would be daily in the Bible seeing the glory of Jesus Christ on every page (Luke 24:27-32, 44-49), being sanctified by the Word (John 17:17), and seeking how to honor God with lives of worship (Romans 12:1-2).

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Seeking knowledge

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"After darkness, light."

 

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Perhaps the most memorable anthem of that early Protestantism is “After darkness, light.” This phenomenon of light breaking in after darkness happens when the true gospel is unearthed from under human traditions, the Bible is given back into the hands of the people, and souls are being truly liberated from sin and death. Our great prayer is that (1) truth would be proclaimed among the Apostolic Lutheran people and churches, (2) the Scriptures would be studied in every home, and (3) God would make many “meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light”, deliver many “from the power of darkness” and translate them “into the kingdom of his dear Son”, and grant them “redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins” (Colossians 1:9-14).

 

To God alone be the glory.

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